Reality check: Half the country? Really? Their kids and grandkids too? Including the blacks and Latinos who voted for Trump in both elections, increasing their numbers in 2020? They’re evil? Nazis? People who want to see their countrymen carted away and murdered? You sure about that?
I’m incredulous that an intelligent person could believe something so dehumanizing and reductive. This false notion will get us nowhere as a country, and Burns did us no favors by tacking on his dog whistle “all Republicans are Nazis” montage. It’s a view that adds to hate rather than diminishing it. I’m not a Trump voter and could never be, but I know people who are, and I can say with 100% certainty that there is not a nazi among them. They feel as strongly about their political views as you do about yours, and they can articulate why. They’re not stupid or morally bankrupt. Like all of us, they weigh the good and the not so good, and decide accordingly. I disagree with them on many things, but not all…and they tend to express more patriotism than Democrats do, which is not such a bad thing…is it?
"While of course we must oppose all the hateful beliefs which Burns underscores in his closing montage..."
Recognizing that half the country doesn't oppose these things is the first step.
Reality check: Half the country? Really? Their kids and grandkids too? Including the blacks and Latinos who voted for Trump in both elections, increasing their numbers in 2020? They’re evil? Nazis? People who want to see their countrymen carted away and murdered? You sure about that?
I’m incredulous that an intelligent person could believe something so dehumanizing and reductive. This false notion will get us nowhere as a country, and Burns did us no favors by tacking on his dog whistle “all Republicans are Nazis” montage. It’s a view that adds to hate rather than diminishing it. I’m not a Trump voter and could never be, but I know people who are, and I can say with 100% certainty that there is not a nazi among them. They feel as strongly about their political views as you do about yours, and they can articulate why. They’re not stupid or morally bankrupt. Like all of us, they weigh the good and the not so good, and decide accordingly. I disagree with them on many things, but not all…and they tend to express more patriotism than Democrats do, which is not such a bad thing…is it?